April 6 in Medical History
24 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Sports HistoryArgentine soccer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 months by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use
- First baby born with DNA from three parents through mitochondrial transfer in Mexico
- Nadia, a tiger at the Bronx Zoo (New York City), tests positive for COVID-19, 1st known case of human-to-cat transmission
- US COVID-19 death toll passes 10,000 in six weeks, with more than 356,000 American infected, New York death toll reaches 4,758
- COVID-19 PandemicJapanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe announces state of emergency in seven prefectures and a nearly $1 trillion stimulus package as COVID-19 cases climb
- 149th British Open Men's Golf Championship is cancelled for the first time since WWII due to the COVID-19 pandemic; Royal St George's GC to host event in 2021
Born on this day
- MaimonidesJewish philosopher, Torah scholar, physician and astronomer (March 30 also proposed, died 1204)
- Walter DandyAmerican physician and neurosurgeon (died 1946)
- Feodor Felix Konrad LynenGerman biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979)
- Edmond H. FischerSwiss-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)
- James WatsonAmerican molecular biologist who co-discovered DNA's structure, with Francis Crick (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1962), geneticist and zoologist, born in Chicago, Illinois (1928-2025)
- Paul BeresfordNew Zealand-English dentist and politician
- Tanya ByronEnglish psychologist and academic
- Spencer WellsAmerican geneticist and anthropologist
Died on this day
- John Winthrop the YoungerEnglish politician, 1st Governor of Connecticut (born 1606)
- Alvan Wentworth ChapmanAmerican physician and botanist (born 1809)
- Jules BordetBelgian bacteriologist (syphillis, Nobel 1919), dies at 90
- Sam SheppardAmerican physician and accused wife murderer, dies of liver failure at 46
- Isaac AsimovRussian-American scientist and sci-fi writer (I Robot; Foundation Trilogy), dies from kidney failure at 72 (1920-1992)
- Anthony F. DePalmaAmerican orthopedic surgeon and professor (born 1904)
- Hilda BynoeGrenadian physician and politician, 2nd Governor of Grenada (born 1921)
- Giovanni BerlinguerItalian lawyer and politician (born 1924)
- Richard GreenAmerican sexologist, lawyer, and author who advocated for gay and transexual rights, dies of oesophageal cancer at 82
- Michael O'DonnellBritish physician, journalist, author and broadcaster (born 1928)